Pro Wrestling Real Life Stories: Episode 3 - Lana, Rusev, his real-life fight, Russia, Bulgaria and the American Dream

#2 Rusev's real-life fight

Rusev is not one to be messed with

Rusev once recalled that early on in his professional wrestling career, he got into a rather tricky situation in the ring, against a smaller wrestler who he was working a match with.

Anecdotes:

Speaking to Chris Jericho about stiff workers, Rusev recalled that he was once at the receiving end of a stiff strike at the hands of a smaller wrestler against whom he'd been competing at an indie event. Apparently, the wrestler continued hitting him with unnecessarily hard strikes, and Rusev finally hit back with a huge forearm which laid out the man!

Rusev claimed that he then felt bad for the wrestler, however, Jericho explained that the former wasn't really at fault in the aforesaid situation. In fact, Y2J revealed that after receiving a couple of stiff strikes from Shane McMahon in a match at Survivor Series, he'd similarly tagged Shane with a stiff drop-kick in order to send the latter a message that he'd better take it easy with Jericho...